Number of attempts has OR have

[heather s]

Hi,

Please let me know which one is the correct sentence grammatically from the below mentioned:

Number of attempts has been made.
OR
Number of attempts have been made.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Heather

 

[5jj]

A number of (= several) attempts have been made.

 

[heather s]

Hey,

Thanks for your quick reply.

But I have one confusion. Should we need to use,

A number of attempts have been made.

or we can use,

Number of attempts have been made.

Regards,
Heather

 

[5jj]

Should we [STRIKE]need to[/STRIKE] use,

A number of attempts have been made. Yes - that's why I wrote it, and emphasised the indefinite article.

or we can use,

Number of attempts have been made. No

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[heather s]

Thank you...

Heather